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John Huston is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Editor and Second Unit American born on 5 august 1906 at Nevada (USA)
John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Misfits (1961), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, won twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins in different films.
Huston was known to direct with the vision of an artist, having studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris in his early years. He continued to explore the visual aspects of his films throughout his career: sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting. While most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, making them both more economical and cerebral, with little editing needed.
Most of Huston's films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting a "heroic quest," as in Moby Dick, or The Red Badge of Courage. In many films, different groups of people, while struggling toward a common goal, would become doomed, forming "destructive alliances," giving the films a dramatic and visual tension. Many of his films involved themes such as religion, meaning, truth, freedom, psychology, colonialism and war.
Before becoming a Hollywood filmmaker, he had been an amateur boxer, reporter, short-story writer, portrait artist in Paris, a cavalry rider in Mexico, and a documentary filmmaker during World War II. Huston has been referred to as "a titan", "a rebel", and a "renaissance man" in the Hollywood film industry. Author Ian Freer describes him as "cinema's Ernest Hemingway"—a filmmaker who was "never afraid to tackle tough issues head on."
Huston loved the outdoors, especially sports such as hunting while living in Ireland. He claimed that he had no orthodox religion. Among his life's adventures before becoming a Hollywood filmmaker, he had been an amateur boxer, reporter, short-story writer, portrait artist in Paris, a cavalry rider in Mexico, and a documentary filmmaker during World War II. Besides sports and adventure, he enjoyed hard liquor and relationships with women of all types — one of the reasons he was married five times. Stevens describes him as someone who "lived life to its fullest". Barson even suggests that Huston's "flamboyant life" as a rebel would possibly make for "an even more engaging tale than most of his movies".
His daughter, Anjelica Huston notes that he did not like Hollywood, and "especially despised Beverly Hills ... he thought it was just fake from the ground up. He didn't like any of that; he was not intrigued or attracted by it." She notes that in contrast, "he liked to be in the wild places; he liked animals as much as he liked people."
He was married five times:
Dorothy Harvey (1906-1982) — This marriage ended after a year in 1926.
Lesley Black — It was during his marriage to Black that he embarked on an affair with married New York socialite Marietta FitzGerald. While her lawyer husband was helping the war effort, the pair were once rumoured to have made love so vigorously, they broke a friend's bed.
Evelyn Keyes (1916-2008) — The Hustons adopted a son Pablo, from Mexico.
Enrica Soma (1929-1969) — They had two children: a daughter, Anjelica Huston, and a son, Walter Antony "Tony" Huston, now an attorney and father of actor Jack Huston. Soma also had a daughter, Allegra Huston, as the result of an extramarital affair with John Julius Norwich; Huston treated the girl as one of his own children following Soma's death four years later.
Celeste Shane — In his autobiography, An Open Book, Huston refers to her as a "crocodile", and states only that if he had his life to do over, he would not marry a fifth time.
Four of his marriages ended in divorce. His fourth wife, Enrica Soma, died in a car accident in 1969, while they were married. In addition to his children with Soma, he fathered a son, actor Danny Huston, with author Zoe Sallis.
Among his friends were Orson Welles and Ernest Hemingway. Humphrey Bogart was one of his best friends and Huston delivered the eulogy at his funeral.
Huston visited Ireland in 1951 and stayed at Luggala, County Wicklow, the home of Garech Browne, a member of the Guinness family. He visited Ireland several times afterwards and on one of these visits he purchased and restored a Georgian home, St Clerans, of Craughwell, County Galway. Between 1960 and 1971 he served as Master of Fox Hounds (MFH) of the County Galway Hunt – the famous "Galway Blazers" – whose kennels are at Craughwell. He renounced his U.S. citizenship and became an Irish citizen in 1964. His daughter Anjelica attended school in Ireland at Kylemore Abbey for a number of years. A film school is now dedicated to him on the NUIG campus.
Huston was an accomplished painter who wrote in his autobiography, "Nothing has played a more important role in my life". As a young man he studied at the Smith School of Art in Los Angeles but dropped out within a few months. He later studied at the Art Students League of New York. He painted throughout his life and had studios in each of his homes. He had owned a wide collection of art, including a notable collection of Pre-Columbian art.
A heavy smoker, he was diagnosed with emphysema in 1978. By the last year of his life he could not breathe for more than twenty minutes without needing oxygen. He died on August 28, 1987 in his rented home in Middletown, Rhode Island from pneumonia as a complication of lung disease. Huston is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood with his mother.
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John Huston
Birth name John Marcellus Huston
Nationality USA
Birth 5 august 1906 at Nevada (USA)
Death 28 august 1987 (at 81 years) at Middletown (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Director
Nationality USA
Birth 5 august 1906 at Nevada (USA)
Death 28 august 1987 (at 81 years) at Middletown (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Director
John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Misfits (1961), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, won twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins in different films.
Huston was known to direct with the vision of an artist, having studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris in his early years. He continued to explore the visual aspects of his films throughout his career: sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting. While most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, making them both more economical and cerebral, with little editing needed.
Most of Huston's films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting a "heroic quest," as in Moby Dick, or The Red Badge of Courage. In many films, different groups of people, while struggling toward a common goal, would become doomed, forming "destructive alliances," giving the films a dramatic and visual tension. Many of his films involved themes such as religion, meaning, truth, freedom, psychology, colonialism and war.
Before becoming a Hollywood filmmaker, he had been an amateur boxer, reporter, short-story writer, portrait artist in Paris, a cavalry rider in Mexico, and a documentary filmmaker during World War II. Huston has been referred to as "a titan", "a rebel", and a "renaissance man" in the Hollywood film industry. Author Ian Freer describes him as "cinema's Ernest Hemingway"—a filmmaker who was "never afraid to tackle tough issues head on."
Biography
To producer George Stevens, Jr., Huston symbolized "intellect, charm and physical grace" within the film industry. He adds, "He was the most charismatic of the directors I knew, speaking with a soothing, melodic voice that was often mimicked, but was unique to him."Huston loved the outdoors, especially sports such as hunting while living in Ireland. He claimed that he had no orthodox religion. Among his life's adventures before becoming a Hollywood filmmaker, he had been an amateur boxer, reporter, short-story writer, portrait artist in Paris, a cavalry rider in Mexico, and a documentary filmmaker during World War II. Besides sports and adventure, he enjoyed hard liquor and relationships with women of all types — one of the reasons he was married five times. Stevens describes him as someone who "lived life to its fullest". Barson even suggests that Huston's "flamboyant life" as a rebel would possibly make for "an even more engaging tale than most of his movies".
His daughter, Anjelica Huston notes that he did not like Hollywood, and "especially despised Beverly Hills ... he thought it was just fake from the ground up. He didn't like any of that; he was not intrigued or attracted by it." She notes that in contrast, "he liked to be in the wild places; he liked animals as much as he liked people."
He was married five times:
Dorothy Harvey (1906-1982) — This marriage ended after a year in 1926.
Lesley Black — It was during his marriage to Black that he embarked on an affair with married New York socialite Marietta FitzGerald. While her lawyer husband was helping the war effort, the pair were once rumoured to have made love so vigorously, they broke a friend's bed.
Evelyn Keyes (1916-2008) — The Hustons adopted a son Pablo, from Mexico.
Enrica Soma (1929-1969) — They had two children: a daughter, Anjelica Huston, and a son, Walter Antony "Tony" Huston, now an attorney and father of actor Jack Huston. Soma also had a daughter, Allegra Huston, as the result of an extramarital affair with John Julius Norwich; Huston treated the girl as one of his own children following Soma's death four years later.
Celeste Shane — In his autobiography, An Open Book, Huston refers to her as a "crocodile", and states only that if he had his life to do over, he would not marry a fifth time.
Four of his marriages ended in divorce. His fourth wife, Enrica Soma, died in a car accident in 1969, while they were married. In addition to his children with Soma, he fathered a son, actor Danny Huston, with author Zoe Sallis.
Among his friends were Orson Welles and Ernest Hemingway. Humphrey Bogart was one of his best friends and Huston delivered the eulogy at his funeral.
Huston visited Ireland in 1951 and stayed at Luggala, County Wicklow, the home of Garech Browne, a member of the Guinness family. He visited Ireland several times afterwards and on one of these visits he purchased and restored a Georgian home, St Clerans, of Craughwell, County Galway. Between 1960 and 1971 he served as Master of Fox Hounds (MFH) of the County Galway Hunt – the famous "Galway Blazers" – whose kennels are at Craughwell. He renounced his U.S. citizenship and became an Irish citizen in 1964. His daughter Anjelica attended school in Ireland at Kylemore Abbey for a number of years. A film school is now dedicated to him on the NUIG campus.
Huston was an accomplished painter who wrote in his autobiography, "Nothing has played a more important role in my life". As a young man he studied at the Smith School of Art in Los Angeles but dropped out within a few months. He later studied at the Art Students League of New York. He painted throughout his life and had studios in each of his homes. He had owned a wide collection of art, including a notable collection of Pre-Columbian art.
A heavy smoker, he was diagnosed with emphysema in 1978. By the last year of his life he could not breathe for more than twenty minutes without needing oxygen. He died on August 28, 1987 in his rented home in Middletown, Rhode Island from pneumonia as a complication of lung disease. Huston is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood with his mother.
Best films
(1982)(Director)
(1974)(Actor)
(1985)(Director)
(1941)(Scriptwriter)
(1964)(Director)
(1952)(Director)
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Filmography of John Huston (103 films)
| Year | Name | Job | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | The Other Side of the Wind | Actor | J.J. "Jake" Hannaford |
| 2015 | Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Actor | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
| 2010 | Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
| 1988 | Mr. North | , Executive Producer | |
| 1987 | The Dead | Director | |
| 1986 | Momo | Actor | Meister Hora |
| 1985 | Prizzi's Honor | Director | |
| 1985 | The Black Cauldron | Actor | Narrator (voice) |
| 1985 | Epic | Actor | The Narrator (US version) |
| 1984 | Under the Volcano | Director | |
| 1983 | Lovesick | Actor | Larry Geller, M.D. |
| 1982 | Cannery Row | Actor | Narrator |
| 1982 | Annie | Actor, Director | Actor on Radio (uncredited) |
| 1981 | Escape to Victory | Director | |
| 1980 | Agee | Actor | Self |
| 1980 | Head On | Actor | Clarke Hill |
| 1980 | Phobia | Director | |
| 1980 | The Return of the King | Actor | Gandalf (voice) |
| 1979 | Wise Blood | Actor, Director | Grandfather |
| 1979 | Jaguar Lives! | Actor | Ralph Richards |
| 1979 | Love and Bullets | Director | |
| 1979 | The Visitor | Actor | Jerzy Colsowicz |
| 1979 | Winter Kills | Actor | Pa Kegan |
| 1978 | The Biggest Battle | Actor | Sean O'Hara |
| 1978 | The Bermuda Triangle | Actor | Edward |
| 1977 | Tentacles | Actor | Ned Turner |
| 1977 | Angela | Actor | Hogan |
| 1977 | The Hobbit | Actor | Gandalf the Grey (voice) |
| 1976 | Hollywood on Trial | Actor | Narrator |
| 1976 | Sherlock Holmes in New York | Actor | Professor Moriarty |
| 1976 | Independence | Director | |
| 1975 | Breakout | Actor | Harris Wagner |
| 1975 | The Man Who Would Be King | Director, Scriptwriter | |
| 1975 | The Wind and the Lion | Actor | John Hay |
| 1974 | Chinatown | Actor | Noah Cross |
| 1973 | Battle for the Planet of the Apes | Actor | The Lawgiver |
| 1973 | The MacKintosh Man | Director | |
| 1972 | Fat City | Director, Producer | |
| 1972 | The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | Actor, Director | Grizzly Adams |
| 1971 | The Last Run | Director | |
| 1971 | Man in the Wilderness | Actor | Captain Filmore Henry |
| 1971 | The Bridge in the Jungle | Actor | Sleigh |
| 1970 | The Kremlin Letter | Actor, Director, , Producer | Admiral |
| 1970 | Myra Breckinridge | Actor | Buck Loner |
| 1970 | The Deserter | Actor | General Miles |
| 1969 | The Madwoman of Chaillot | Director | |
| 1969 | De Sade | Actor | The Abbe |
| 1969 | Sinful Davey | Director, Executive Producer | |
| 1969 | A Walk with Love and Death | Actor, Director, Producer | Robert the Elder |
| 1968 | Rocky Road to Dublin | Actor | Self |
| 1968 | Candy | Actor | Dr. Arnold Dunlap |
| 1967 | Casino Royale | Actor, Director | M / General MacTarry |
| 1967 | Reflections in a Golden Eye | Director, Producer | |
| 1966 | The Bible: In the Beginning... | Actor, Director | Noah |
| 1966 | The Legend of Marilyn Monroe | Actor | Narrator |
| 1964 | The Night of the Iguana | Director, Scriptwriter, Producer | |
| 1963 | The List of Adrian Messenger | Actor, Director | Lord Ashton (uncredited) |
| 1963 | The Cardinal | Actor | Kardinal Glennon |
| 1962 | Freud: The Secret Passion | Actor, Director, Scriptwriter | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1961 | The Misfits | Actor, Director, Producer | Extra in Blackjack Scene (uncredited) |
| 1960 | The Unforgiven | Director | |
| 1958 | The Roots of Heaven | Director | |
| 1958 | The Barbarian and the Geisha | Director | |
| 1957 | A Farewell to Arms | Director | |
| 1957 | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | Director, Scriptwriter | |
| 1956 | Moby Dick | Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer | Barman / Ship's Lookout (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1953 | Beat the Devil | Director, Scriptwriter, Producer | |
| 1952 | The African Queen | Director, Scriptwriter | |
| 1952 | Moulin Rouge | Director, Scriptwriter, Producer | |
| 1951 | The Prowler | Producer | |
| 1951 | The Red Badge of Courage | Actor, Director, Writer | Grizzled Union Veteran (uncredited) |
| 1950 | The Asphalt Jungle | Director, Scriptwriter, Producer | |
| 1949 | We Were Strangers | Actor, Director, Scriptwriter | Señor Muñoz (uncredited) |
| 1948 | On Our Merry Way | Director | |
| 1948 | Key Largo | Director, Scriptwriter | |
| 1948 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Actor, Director, Scriptwriter | American in Tampico in White Suit (uncredited) |
| 1946 | The Stranger | Co-Writer, Producer | |
| 1946 | The Killers | Writer, Additional Writing | |
| 1946 | Let There Be Light | Director, Writer | |
| 1946 | Three Strangers | Scriptwriter | |
| 1945 | San Pietro | Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer | Narrator |
| 1945 | Know Your Enemy: Japan | Writer | |
| 1944 | Dark Waters | Scriptwriter | |
| 1944 | Tunisian Victory | Director | |
| 1943 | Report from the Aleutians | Actor, Director, Writer, Editor | Narrator (voice) |
| 1942 | Across the Pacific | Director | |
| 1942 | In This Our Life | Director, Scriptwriter | |
| 1942 | Winning Your Wings | Director | |
| 1941 | The Maltese Falcon | Director, Scriptwriter | |
| 1941 | High Sierra | Scriptwriter | |
| 1941 | Sergeant York | Scriptwriter | |
| 1940 | Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet | Scriptwriter | |
| 1939 | Wuthering Heights | Scriptwriter | |
| 1939 | Juarez | Scriptwriter | |
| 1938 | The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Scriptwriter | |
| 1938 | Jezebel | Scriptwriter, Second Unit | |
| 1935 | It Happened in Paris | Writer | |
| 1935 | Death Drives Through | Story | |
| 1932 | Law and Order | Adaptation | |
| 1932 | Murders in the Rue Morgue | Scriptwriter, Additional Dialogue | |
| 1931 | A House Divided | Dialogue | |
| 1930 | Hell's Heroes | Actor | Church Member (uncredited) |
| 1930 | The Storm | Dialogue |